After collecting ideas from area residents, volunteers will work to turn them into projects. In the spring, we will have a vote to decide which projects receive funding. Last year, the seven ideas with the most votes were funded, including outfitting a library room to host community meetings and performances; renovating paths and bringing more trash cans to Prospect Park; and a new community composting system that will take food scraps from our Greenmarkets.

Your idea could be one of this year's winners. I hope you can be there tonight.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Should reopen before Christmas. I've got the milk and cookies ready, Santa.

In other subway happenings, I explored the new Atlantic Ave - Barclays
subway entrance. Impressively functional and convenient. Not so much
the N/R connection, but others like the 2/3 are cinch to access.

And the long awaited uptown 6 connection at Bleecker and
Broadway-Lafayette opens Tuesday.

The MTA plans to add several new Metro-North stations in the Bronx.
Good news! But a local group raises a dire spectre:
"We have, everyday, a heavy influx of commuters that come down out of
lower Westchester to take the subway," said Ruggiero, of the Morris
Park Merchants Alliance. "They feel like this is only going to
compound that problem."

Why on earth would people drive from Westchester,where there are many
Metro-North stations, to park in the Bronx and take … the Metro-North!

Fortunately I think the MTA will move forward without dumping in a
bunch of unnecessary and expensive parking.

Unrelated to the neighborhood or politics, but fits into another
favorite subject: incompetent, corrupted journalism.

Andrew Ross Sorkin is the poster boy for access journalism, a
shameless shill for the powerful and fluffer of his sources. He is an
entertainer, not a journalist.

The CFO at Facebook isn't the incompetent or the fool here. That
would be the body of gullible idiots that thought Facebook, in a
business with low barriers to entry, was worth the obscene valuation
they demanded to share ownership. Mark Zuckerberg put $1 BILLION cash
in his pocket and retained voting control of his company.

Personally I think Zuckerberg is probably a rapacious asshole, based
on the various stories I've read in the press. But he's no fool. From
the insider's perspective, the Facebook IPO was the greatest success
imaginable.